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<h1><a style="text-decoration: none;">SDKLicense</a>
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<h3>License terms of AviSynth external filter SDK distribution</h3>
(draft until released)
<p>AviSynth External Filter SDK package (compilation)<br />
is Copyright (c)2003-2006 Avisynth rev.2 Developers Team, <br />
http://sourceforge.net/projects/avisynth2, http://www.avisynth.org.<br />
It is released with NO WARRANTY and freely usable/distributable<br />
under terms of GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.<br />
See full text of the license in <a href="../gpl.txt">gpl.txt</a>
file.<br />
It should have been included; if not, you may receive a copy at<br />
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html</a>
or by writing <br />
to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA
02139, USA.
</p>
<h4>Here are specific license terms of some parts of this
package:
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<p>The header file 'avisynth.h' is a part of current release of
Avisynth<br />
Copyright (c)2002 Ben Rudiak-Gould et al. http://www.avisynth.org.<br />
It is distributed under terms of GNU General Public License (GPL)<br />
and contains license exceptions giving you additional permissions<br />
besides those granted in the GNU GPL.<br />
Consult the license block at the top of the file for information.
</p>
<p>"Writing Avisynth plugins" article is Copyright (c)2000 Ben
Rudiak-Gould.<br />
Whole AviSynth v1.0 was distributed under terms of GNU GPL.<br />
From Bens's message (not directly related to the article and sample
code though):<br />
"...regardless of my moral/ethical views, I don't think I have any
legal basis<br />
for restricting the licensing terms of these plugins (and I never
intended to do so)..."<br />
</p>
<p>TwoFiveInvert, TwoFiveFastInvert, Limiter code samples, most
other<br />
code snippets in this package are Copyright (c)2003 Klaus Post
('sh0dan'). <br />
Distributed under terms of GNU GPL with additional permission:<br />
You may freely copy and modify these code samples and <br />
distribute resulting work under terms of your choice provided that <br />
this resulting work is independent module that communicates with
Avisynth <br />
under conditions defined in avisynth.h license block.
</p>
<p>Avisynth.def, avisynth.lib, avisynth.map and possible other
extra files<br />
are distributed as part of current version of AviSynth <br />
Copyright(c)2002 Ben Rudiak-Gould et al. under terms of GNU GPL.
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<p>Several versions of SimpleSample plugin source code are<br />
Copyright(c)2002 Simon Walters and distributed under terms of GNU GPL.
</p>
<p>Additiveblend code samples and some other texts (signed
'phaeron') <br />
about assembler optimization are Copyright (c)2003 Avery Lee. License
terms are: <br />
You may consider the text added by me to that article to be freely
available for any use.
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<p>Any trademarks mentioned here are the property of their owners.<br />
To the our knowledge no trademark or patent infringement exists in this<br />
document or this distribution; any such infringement is purely
unintentional.
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<p>In a case of some copyright or other questions, please contact
us<br />
at sourceforge.net/projects/avisynth2 or at Avisynth Development forum
at doom9.org.
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<p>See <a href="SDKHistory.htm">SDK History</a>
for some details.
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<h3>Appeal to plugin authors:</h3>
<pre>We invite you to distrubute your AviSynth plugins under <br />GNU GPL license in the spirit of open source AviSynth project. <br />Whole AviSynth community will help you in plugin development and improving.<br />To do it, simply place your copyright statement and GNU GPL license <br />comment block at the top of your souce code (see SimpleSample code for example) <br />and release your plugin with the source code (and gpl.txt) included.<br />(You may not act differently if your plugin contains some source code under GNU GPL.)<br /><br /> With best personal regards,<br /> Avisynth rev.2 Developers Team<br /> http://sourceforge.net/projects/avisynth2, http://www.avisynth.org<br /></pre>
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